PowerMapper

Site maps are website directories which can be easily fetched by web crawlers in order to learn a website's pages and links. Site maps can be displayed in a number of different map styles which arrange sites into a tree structure. Some styles display thumbnails for each page, others use text-only presentation. Map styles include:

• Electrum – a simple thumbnail map style
• Electrum 2.0 – a variation of the Electrum style that works better on larger sites
• Isometric – a thumbnail map style using a pseudo-3D isometric projection
• Page Cloud – a thumbnail map style with pages clustered into 3D clouds
• Skyscrapers – an abstract representation of pages that looks like city blocks
• Thumb Tree – a hierarchical thumbnail map style
• Table Map – a plain text list of pages in a table
• Table of Contents – a plain text list of pages
• Tree View – an expanding table of contents

Site maps can also be exported in XML sitemaps format for use by the Google, Yahoo and MSN search engines.

The product received positive reviews from a greater community for the 1.0 release in 1997, and subsequent reviews for the 4.0 release in Microsoft TechNet Magazine.[1]

• Site map, a graphical representation of the architecture of a web site
• Sitemaps, a standard for URL inclusion in search engines